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Friday, March 2, 2012

Our Very Own Horror

NEW DELHI: Contrary to the impression that India is being used as a
transit point by international traffickers to smuggle Afghan heroin to
both Europe and the US, the United Nations
drug report, 2011, has said that India is the biggest consumer of
heroin. Of the 40 tonnes produced in south Asia, nearly 17 tonnes are
consumed in India, the biggest consumer in the region with the trade
valued at $1.4 billion.

Did we hear it right? Are we really consuming the 40 percent of the drug produced around us?
Now any institution controlled by interested parties, and the west has been interested in India for long, has to be believed cautiously but in the present case we have absolutely know reason to doubt the report in question.
So we got to take it on the chin.
We have a huge and unnerving problem at hand.
This is a problem to which we need to pay attention at a priority that must be qualitatively higher than, say, polio eradication. No insensitivity intended here. The way this menace destroys human will power is horrendous. We hope the relevant people take heed.

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Dear visitor,If you recognize the following pictures then you are at home. If not then you are welcome as a guest. Here you'll find some tidbits related to some thing called Aligarh Movement with a tilt towards issues related to Science in Islamic context.